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Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre

By Tamar Jeffers McDonald

Book information

Publisher
Wallflower Press
Year
2007
ISBN
1905674023, 9781905674022
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2127326 bytes)
Series
Short Cuts
Pages
144\145
Time added
2014-12-07 11:27:42

Description

Romantic Comedy offers an introduction to the analysis of a popular but overlooked film genre. The book provides an overview of Hollywood's romantic comedy conventions, examining iconography, narrative patterns, and ideology. Chapters discuss important subgroupings within the genre: screwball sex comedy and the radical romantic comedy of the 1970s. A final chapter traces the lasting influence of these earlier forms within current romantic comedies. Films include: Pillow Talk (1959), Annie Hall (1977), and You've Got Mail (1998).

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